Actually pretty much most places regarding Smash Bros. Dark Pit is a pretty unpopular character. And there is legitimate reasons for it.

1. Even in the game itself, he’s pretty much 95% a clone of Pit with even less differences then any of the Melee clones. If you’re good as playing as Pit, there’s practically nothing that makes Dark Pit better or worse.

2. His differences are also quite minimal. Like his arrows being harder to control but stronger, his side B does slightly more damage and launches opponents diagonally rather then upward like Pits, and his Final Smash is completely different. From Pit’s that is. It’s basically a clone of Zelda and Shiek’s Final Smash. Other differences obviously includes his taunts, victory poses, etc. but in terms of fighting there’s really only 2 things (Not counting item use such as Final Smashes) that make him different from Pit. Therefore he is the laziest clone design of the entire series. (Before you say I made this up, people actually researched this stuff and found this out.)

3. I don’t think Kid Icarus needed three characters. Before it was quite obvious Palutena was going to be in this game I was even thinking two was slightly pushing it. I’ve heard Uprising is a good game and all, but the only reason it got the representation it did in Smash 4 is because Sakurai directed both. The last Kid Icarus game before Uprising was nearly two decades ago, and that one isn’t even canon to the Japanese. So the last one was the first Kid Icarus to Japan which was released nearly three decades ago. Some people complained about Star Fox getting 3 in Brawl when that franchise kinda stops to a halt every few years or so (I didn’t though) but Kid Icarus gets three reps even though it’s relatively minor to Nintendo as a result of it’s very long breaks between sequels?

4. Even if Kid Icarus deserved a 3rd Character. There were better choices, my picks would personally either be Medusa (Main antagonist of the original game, and played a decent role in Uprising) or Hades (Main antagonist of Uprising, that is also become an instant hit with fans of Nintendo villains with his hilarious dialogue)

and 5. Dark Pit could of easily been fit as an Alt. I would of been perfectly fine if Dark Pit was just an Alt that is similar to how Olimar has Alph or Bowser Jr. have the Koopalings. It comes up as quite hypocritical when they do stuff like that but Dark Pit is a separate character on his own. Pit and Dark Pit even have the same voice actor. It wouldn’t take too much effort even compared to how the Wii Fit Trainer and Robin have their male and female alts.

I just want to put a disclaimer that I don’t hate Dark Pit as a character, just his inclusion in Smash 4. I watched a full let’s play of Uprising and found Dark Pit to be an ok character in terms of the story. It’s just he was far from deserving of his own slot in Smash 4. And I literally think the roster would be better if he was not there at all as opposed to having another character on the roster. The purpose of clones in Smash is to include semi-popular characters that are less effort to create that beef up the roster. It’s a failure of a clone though, if people would literally take nothing over that character being included in the first place. The only people who actually want to play Dark Pit are those who just really liked him as a character in Uprising and people who want to troll people by using Dark Pit because of how much they are aware that Dark Pit gets on people’s nerves (Sometimes it’s both at once even).

The other two major clones Dr. Mario and Lucina are better for different reasons. While I still don’t like Dr. Mario (As you see I used him as a Punching bag as well), he is different enough from Mario to even lead towards being a Semi-Clone plus Dr. Mario has more history then Dark Pit both in Video Game history in general (The first Dr. Mario game was made in 1990) and Dr. Mario being a veteran alone gives him more merit as much as I still don’t get why he can’t just be an alt of Mario. And Lucina is the new Roy, but even better then Roy because at least she has had some time in her own game to get used to her and she’s a relatively popular character in the Fire Emblem fandom to boot,